If you just want a total (at any one point) of how many characters are in
the field, then this should work:

$('#id_Message').val().length;

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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 12:25 PM
To: jQuery (English)
Subject: [jQuery] How to count characters


Hi,
I have
  <textarea id="id_Message" class="vLargeTextField" name="Message"
rows="8" cols="40"></textarea>

how can I count numbers of characters that a user writes?
Thank you
B.


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